OphilaDros comments on What Is Signaling, Really? - Less Wrong

74 Post author: Yvain 12 July 2012 05:43PM

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Comment author: dlthomas 10 July 2012 09:00:42AM 4 points [-]

What are the costs associated with flowers?

Comment author: OphilaDros 10 July 2012 01:53:36PM 2 points [-]

Possibly the the time spent in figuring out which ones are classy as opposed to 'wannabe' or 'cheesy' or 'trying too hard' or 'lower class'. Probably difficult to figure out for any given group to which you are signalling you belong, unless you actually do belong to that group.